Out of the Ashes 5k

TEAM AWARDS

$1,000 or 15 Registered Team members
Team Name on event banner
A Team Yard sign throughout the interactive walk

$2,000 or 30 Registered Team members
Personalized Team T-Shirts or option to upgrade to additional personalized swag (Individuals who raise $100 will get this swag as part of a team)

$3,000 or 45 Registered Team Members
Child added to online Wall of Remembrance + 5 Care Packs sent in honor of child
$5,000 or 65 Registered Team Members
Name one medical bill grant

$7,500 or 100 Registered Team Members
Custom Memorial Brick at Our Children’s Memorial Walkway at Frazier Park

Top Team over $10,000 and/ or Team with most Team Members over 100 Team Members
VIP Table at Winter Event + Spotlight at this event

INDIVIDUAL FUNDRAISER AWARDS

$250 – Memorial route sign on interactive walk or long-sleeve t-shirt

$500 – Child added to online Wall of Remembrance + our year end newsletter

$1,000 – Name a Grant

Top Individual – 2 VIP Tickets to Winter Event

Each year, our hope is that this race will be a place to remember and acknowledge every woman who longs to be a mother and every life gone too soon. Our race consists of both a competitive 5k run or an interactive Remembrance Walk (1 mile). The interactive element has markers every kilometer representing the infertility journey, miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss.

COMPETITIVE 5K
The route is mostly flat through a residential neighborhood. Roads will not be closed, so please be cognizant of driveways and neighborhood traffic. We will have a security vehicle at the front leading the runners. The route is 2 loops, with the second slightly shorter than the first. Please look for way-finding signs and volunteers to help direct you throughout the route. Awards will be given to top 3 finishers in each age category.

REMEMBRANCE WALK
Along the route – at the different markers – you will see tables with candles and signs representing the stage of pregnancy. If you are walking in memory of a child gone too soon or a couple who longs to be parents, there will be space at each marker to honor that child or family. Many parents grieve these various losses in isolation, unsure of how to feel and unaware of shared experiences in their community. This event is a tangible picture of just how many families in our midst are affected by this type of loss.

AWARDS & CLOSING CEREMONIES
At the conclusion of the race, we will recognize top 3 finishers, male and female, in each age category for the competitive 5k and virtual run. We will also hear from a few speakers about their personal experience with pregnancy loss, early infant loss, and infertility. We hope this will be a sweet time to come together as a community and support each other as we remember the significant lives of those we’ve lost. We encourage all participants to stay for this part of the event. 

HOW THIS RACE WAS BORN
On October 23, 2019, my husband and I gave birth to our stillborn daughter, Hannah. She had died 2 days before at 29 weeks gestation. I only knew two people – in my 31 years — who had experienced this before. But since then, I have watched many untold stories come into the light.

For those of us whose pregnancies ended before we could bring home our babies, it’s difficult to find ways to honor those precious lives. Many of us want to keep their memories alive, but the world around us keeps moving, leaving us alone in our grief. A lifetime seems like an impossible time to wait, but until we meet again, we will honor the life they had – in the womb or in the far-too-few moments on this earth.

We have learned that beauty will rise out of the ashes as we allow their significant lives – no matter how short – to have an eternal impact.